Recent content by TooHotToTrot

I never realised there was no much rubbish on the market. I think I would rather stick to the Disco and trailer than spend the amount of money the sellers are looking at for these. It looks like all of them are at the end of their useful lives. If they were horses I think you would be...

There is no such thing as a cheap horsebox. You either spend upwards of £10,000 or you are basically looking at a pile of ****. If you have a limited budget - face up to reality and get a trailer. You can pick up a half decent trailer for less than what it would cost to keep an elderly...

I would speak to them myself, but they are at the stables so infrequently I rarely see them. Even when they do bother to come, they are never there before 11am - when I am already at work, and if they bother to do a pm visit they are long gone by the time I get there at about 5:30. They are...

The yard owner is totally uninterested in anything that the DIY owners do. They are just left to get on with it.

There is an unfortunate horse on our yard who is generally neglected by his owners. They seem to think he is some sort of toy that only needs to be dealt with when they can be bothered. He can go for days on end standing in a filthy stable with no sight of these people - luckily other...

This is why this particular sport should be left to the professionals. A lot can go wrong very quicky when you are jumping cross country. Leave is to those who are best able to control things when it does go wrong. This could have been a whole lot worse if Oliver not known how to fall in as...

Heavens above - but no doubt some idiot will buy it and expect to have their horse getting out to every show in the area come the spring. I think they are being somewhat optimistic as to price. If anybody pays more than £1 for it they are being robbed.

The only person who knows when you feel ready to get back on again is yourself. If it is still hurting - then leave it until there is no pain. If horsey is likely to be a bit frisky, then put him on the lunge for a while before you get on (or get somebody else to lunge him for you whilst you...

As before - get the VET out. We have had one with a tear in the DDFT which appeared perfectly sound, just went a bit odd in canter on one rein. The injury was only revealed by a (very expensive) MRI.

Do you really have so very little equestrian knowledge? Some of your postings completely amaze me. Contradicting yourself with every sentence. Maybe you should question whether you should actually be owning a horse at all, especially a mare. You are a danger to yourself, your horse and...

We are all able to read what is available on websites. Do you not think a 90 minute lesson with Mary King would be an intensive jumping environment????? Following several weeks of adverse weather conditions, I would hazard that only those who have indoor facilities at their disposal have...

After such a deep injury you would be more than pushing your luck to take the horse into an intensive jumping environment so soon. And with having had a week on box rest it is unlikely that your horse would be sufficiently fit. Maybe you should consider your horse's welfare a little more...

Ours came from East Anglian Horse Boxes in Sudbury, Suffolk. It is as solid as a rock and I would recommend them to anyone. This company are a specialist horsebox manufacturer and converter. These guys know exactly what they are doing and understand what a horsebox has to go through...

We have a conversion and it is fine. Not had any problems at all - in fact there is a bonus in the fact that when and as the chassis gets old and the body is still fine, it can simply be lifted off and placed on a newer chassis. Give it a respray and it all looks brand new again. Anyone who...

She is a lovely horse, and the sweetest, most affectionate person. Selling one of the others is not an option as my other competition horse I bred myself and we have been together for his entire life, and the others are my children's ponies. I have given this a lot of thought overnight - I...